Microbiome of highly polluted coal mine drainage from Onyeama, Nigeria, and its potential for sequestrating toxic heavy metals.

ABSTRACT: Drains from coal mines remain a worrisome point-source of toxic metal/metalloid pollutions to the surface- and ground-waters worldwide, requiring sustainable remediation strategies. Understanding the microbial community subtleties through microbiome and geochemical data can provide valuable information on the problem. Furthermore, the autochthonous microorganisms offer a potential means to remediate such contamination. The drains from Onyeama coal mine in Nigeria contained characteristic sulphates (313.0 ± 15.9 mg l^-1), carbonate (253.0 ± 22.4 mg l^-1), and nitrate (86.6 ± 41.0 mg l^-1), having extreme tendencies to enrich receiving environments with extremely high pollution load index (3110 ± 942) for toxic metals/metalloid. The drains exerted severe degree

SUBMITTER: Oyetibo GO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8410811 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature